Collaborating towards coherence : lexical cohesion in English discourse / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 146.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; v. 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Cohesion (Linguistics).

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help their fellow communicators create coherence from a text. Throughout the book, the context-sensitive and discourse-specific nature of cohesion is stressed: cohesive relations are created and interpreted in particular texts in particular contexts. By investigating the use of cohesion in four different types of discourse, the study shows that cohesion is not uniform across discourse types. The analysis reveals that written dialogue (computer-mediated discussions) and spoken monologue (prepared speech) make use of similar cohesive strategies as spoken dialogue (conversations): in these contexts the communicators' interaction with their fellow communicators leads to a similar outcome. The book suggests that this is an indication of the communicators' attempt to collaborate towards successful communication.

Contents:

Collaborating towards Coherence

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Text and discourse

1.3. Context

1.4. Cohesion and coherence

1.5. The place of lexis in text and discourse studies

1.6. Word versus lexical unit

1.7. Aims and outline of the book

Cohesion, coherence, collaboration

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Cohesion and coherence: Independent but intertwined

2.3. Cohesion and coherence in communication

2.4. Towards a collaborative view of cohesion and coherence

Notes

Building the method of analysis

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Previous approaches to lexical cohesion

3.2.1. Halliday and Hasan

3.2.2. Other early studies: Enkvist, Källgren and Daneš

3.2.3. An application for analysing technical writing: Jordan

3.2.4. An application for analysing conversation: McCarthy

3.2.5. A computational approach: Morris and Hirst

3.2.6. Patterns of lexis: Hoey

3.2.7. Redefinition of Halliday and Hasan: Martin

3.3. Categories of lexical cohesion recognised in the present study

3.3.1. General considerations

3.3.2. Reiteration relations

3.3.3. Collocation relations

3.4. Towards the analysis

Spoken and written discourse

4.1. Introduction

4.2. From speech versus writing to the spoken-written continuum

4.3. Material to be analysed

4.3.1. General considerations

4.3.2. Segmentation and quantitative treatment of the material

The spoken dialogue

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Material

5.3. Patterns of cohesion in face-to-face conversation

5.4. Cohesion across speakers

5.5. Cohesion across turns

5.6. Chains of cohesion

5.7. Collaborating with cohesion in a spoken dialogue

The written dialogue

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Material.

6.3. Patterns of cohesion in e-mail messages

6.4. Cohesion across writers and messages

6.5. Chains of cohesion

6.6. Collaborating with cohesion in a written dialogue

The written monologue

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Material

7.3. Patterns of cohesion in academic writing

7.4. Chains of cohesion

7.5. Cohesion and discourse organisation

7.6. Collaborating with cohesion in a written monologue

The spoken monologue

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Material

8.3. Patterns of cohesion in prepared speeches

8.4. Chains of cohesion

8.5. Cohesion and discourse organisation

8.6. Collaborating with cohesion in a spoken monologue

Lexical cohesion across spoken and written discourse

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Collaborating with cohesion in spoken and written discourse

9.3. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research

9.4. Concluding remarks

References

Name index

Subject index

Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155949

9781282155947

1282155946

9789027293640

9027293643

OCLC:

191952103